AI-generated image: a burnt-orange pickup with a dark-grey pop-up wedge camper on its bed, popped open on a wet gravel pullout in a foggy, mossy Pacific Northwest forest. Basalt, the grey merle Catahoula in a slate-blue collar, stands on the gravel, and Cole stands side-on at the tailgate holding a mug.

Pacific Northwest ยท Truck camping

Cole Ostby

PNW forests, foggy coasts, dirt roads, and a dog named Basalt.

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AI-generated image

About Cole

Cole lives out of a burnt-orange Tundra with a pop-up camper on the back. Home base is the Pacific Northwest: mossy forests, a lot of rain, foggy coastline and cold alpine lakes. When winter settles in, he heads south for red rock.

Basalt, his grey merle Catahoula, rides shotgun and has opinions about every campsite.

  • Mossy forests
  • Rainy camps
  • Foggy coast
  • Alpine lakes
  • Dirt roads
  • Winter red rock

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Camp nights, wet trails, wrong turns and the lessons that come with them. It all lives on Instagram.

@cole.ostby